Comment by quercusa
I think most moves to EMRs were insufficiently disruptive, e.g., electronic orders recapitulate the old paper orders without using the opportunity to reduce ambiguity and insert constraints to prevent common errors.
I think most moves to EMRs were insufficiently disruptive, e.g., electronic orders recapitulate the old paper orders without using the opportunity to reduce ambiguity and insert constraints to prevent common errors.
The problem is that the paper form is the interface, because the ecosystem was designed around it.
10 years ago or so, I asked a health insurance company why a specific digital form could only list up to 16 diagnostic codes (otherwise a duplicate with the additional needed to be created).
They thought about the question for a second, then said that's how many were on the paper form the digital system had been created from (35+ years ago).